Healing through the Body (Part I)

What do we deeply want in our relationship with our kids? (And in our relationship to life, really). And what do we want to experience? We live in very disconnected and disembodied ways, in a very disconnected and disembodied world.

It's this disconnection from the body that contributes to so much of our suffering and keeps us from fully inhabiting the present moment. And it keeps us from experiencing the fullness of our human life; our freedom, our vitality, our fierceness and joy.

Coming home to the body is the path home. And in this episode we begin to explore what this means and what it looks like.

This week, I have something for you! A practice to use to experience what awareness of and in the body feels like as opposed to relating to the body from the mind.  

Come download the practice here. 

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Parenting can lead us to a threshold in life we hadn’t known before. We're bringing into the parenting dynamic with our kids the momentum of our previous experiences - our resources and resilience, as well as our disconnection and disembodiment due to trauma (individual, familial, cultural, historical & intergenerational).  Beyond the challenges we face to parent in ways we may not have been parented, there is a deep love for our children that wants to be expressed and known in presence with them. There's also a yearning in us to experience that deep love ourselves; to feel our power and to live authentically, just as we yearn to protect that for our kids, too. The urgency to heal what's still alive within us might come up with a force because of them, and yet it's ultimately a reclamation of our life force, vitality, joy, connection and creativity we're most hungry for. It’s sometimes a desire bold as love that fuels our courage to meet what we fear to face.